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You don't think that maybe the course is intended to counteract the poor understanding of Early America that students would have when their knowledge base is The Patriot? Also Josh Piker owns and I recommend you take his classes if possible.

I wouldn't be surprised if it actually were Zombie Philosophy, as in watch Romero movies and talk about how much you hate The Walking Dead. My college (CU-Boulder) had a Zombie class, although I forget what the full title of it was. Some administrators mocked it, but it was extremely popular with students.

"Zombies in philosophy are imaginary creatures used to illuminate problems about consciousness and its relation to the physical world. Unlike those in films or witchraft, they are exactly like us in all physical respects but without conscious experiences: by definition there is ‘nothing it is like’ to be a zombie. Yet zombies behave just like us, and some even spend a lot of time discussing consciousness."

We call creatures which die and then come back to life to roam the earth 'zombies'. He was also a dude. Just because they didn't use the term 'dude' when they originally wrote the story doesn't make it any less correct of a description simply because the term is modern. If someone can describe something and make no factual errors in their description, and it's just a matter of seeing it from a different perspective (such as not as serious, or pious, etc), they're not wrong. The story of Jesus is about a Jewish zombie who promises that if you worship him, he will get his dad to give you eternal bliss... right after you die.

We offered a similar course at my university. It explores the ideas of people without consciousness otherwise known as philosophical zombies in the philosophy world. Popularized by Chalmers. Philosophy of the Mind, yo.

We had a similar (or same? don't know what school they are attending) class at the college I went to. it was one of those classes everyone wanted to take because it sounds great, but was an actual philosophy class with discussions on the science and ethics of a zombie apocalypse. Everyone that I knew who took the class said it was a lot more reading and work than they expected.

There is actually a philosophical "zombie problem" in philosophy in which we talk about theory of mind by discussing a hypothetical philosophical zombie. This is useful for trying to pin down what we call sentience or experience, as well as discussing AI and personhood in general.

The real sad thing is how higher education has become little more than 4 years of job training. Education was always meant to be an end in and of itself, not simply a means of getting a job, nor as some magic certificate that employers could use to offload the expense of training their employees onto someone else.

This only existed for the very wealthy; everyone else had apprenticeships or inherited their family's occupation.

There's has never been a golden age of knowledge for knowledge's sake, because there is no knowledge about the world that is not necessarily about the way the world was, is, and could be - of perfect relevance to the employment of people who do things in a job.

All of these present insurmountable obstacles (though none truly exist 'on their own') to zombies as the reanimated dead - go through that list, and try to see why exactly zombies as movies portray them; shuffling, necrotic flesh hungry monsters with no memory and only rudimentary reasoning, are absolutely impossible from both an artificially created and evolutionary standpoint.

Pretty soon the word zombie will be in front of every subject in college. Zombie math, zombie physics, zombie American history. It's not really about actual zombies, more so it's about what the schools are producing.

Yeah, probably just that there is a lot more to the tales than popular culture. We also had one about the sexual undertones of fairytales and folklore including the Brothers Grimm. Apparently lots of it is about rape.

This is, more than likely, a seminar class which is required for all students to take. They can take on many different topics, but the writing, researching, and presentation skill requirements are the same for every class.

Professor at Binghamton University (my school) started the first ever zombie themed class "Zombie Nation." It's a damn interesting class that discusses social issues and human responses in the face of the apocalypse .

Now hold on a sec, before we go and get the pitchforks and torches. I actually think that a zombie philosophy class could quite engaging. Even now I can think of some pretty neat ideas for a class like this.

What makes someone or something a zombie? Is the only the primal urge to eat? What if instead we looked at it as a only having a need to consume? Then you could draw all sorts of parallels with our consumerist culture, maybe treat it like a mock zombie apocalypse where are in fact the zombies. How could one then reinterpret movies like Dawn of the Dead? Could any meaningful connections be made, who or what would they be and what do they tell us about our society.

Courses like this are really interesting and if you take them seriously a lot of fun can be had with real academic discussions.